Richard Roundtree Quotes

#1. I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'

Samuel L. Jackson

#2. If you do the same thing too often, it gets to be the only thing you can do.

Richard Roundtree

#3. When I did 'Shaft', I was so happy to be working and to have been a star of a major motion picture, I had no idea or concept of where it was going to go, and it turned out to be this huge film. That was the icing on the cake.

Richard Roundtree

#4. When someone forces you - he unkindly borrows- he does not, can not own you- Remember your body, spirit and heart are yours and only yours, and when you start to process your sexual abuse you will get it all back.

Patti Feuereisen

#5. Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

Sophia Loren

#6. The doctor told me, 'You have breast cancer.' I heard the cancer part first - it was only later that I heard the breast part. I couldn't believe it.

Richard Roundtree

#7. I, Sirius Black, Harry Potter's godfather, hereby give him permission to visit Hogsmead at weekends.

J.K. Rowling

#8. We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +'s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +'s.

Francis Crick

#9. The usual," said Ron indifferently, demonstrating a rude hand gesture.

J.K. Rowling

#10. A Happy Heart is a good medicine & a Positive mind works Healing

JoanneTarah

#11. Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation.

Paul Washer

#12. No more will there be any difference between 'the ideal good' and 'good' in so far as both are good.

Aristotle.

#13. People hate the feeling that technology is dragging them into the future, that they're not really following what's happening, but being forced to be involved. Even if it makes their life better, it still feels like it's happening against their will.

Chuck Klosterman

#14. I don't know if it's a racial thing or not, but it's hard for the Roundtrees to talk about health issues. People have to get over all that stuff.

Richard Roundtree

#15. As much as possible, I'd like every role to be totally different from the one before.

Richard Roundtree

#16. There's nobody more opposite from John Shaft than a kid who worships a banana as his god.

Richard Roundtree

#17. When you go into a film, you read it, and something clicks for you, and you like it, and you sign on for it; you go for it. You know that this is going to be a good film, and that is your best hope. Past that, it's a crap shoot - you roll the dice.

Richard Roundtree

#18. I constantly deal with being called Shaft, and I vacillate back and forth with people coming up to me about it. But it never ceases to blow me away with the impact that character had on my life and my fans' lives.

Richard Roundtree

#19. I was in the closet, so to speak, until after the fifth year when I was cancer-free.

Richard Roundtree

#20. We need people who will go, and stay until the end.

Jackie Pullinger

#21. I'm not really much of a video game player; my son would be the expert in that department. The only game I would really play is golf, the Tiger Woods video game.

Richard Roundtree

#22. Although it happens more rarely in men, breast cancer is not gender-specific. I was in Costa Rica, and in the shower I felt this lump under my left nipple. It was very small, mind you, but enough to make me call my doctor.

Richard Roundtree